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November 1st, 2016 #09208 Page #73
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Don’t Forget! You Saw it in the
Letter to the
Editor
Staying Active in Retirement To Carl Schoening on his October article, “The End is here….maybe”:
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fter working in the Truss and Component Industry for 4½ decades, I was looking forward to retirement. Fishing when I wanted to, golfing when I wanted to. Well, after getting up at 4 o’clock in the morning for 46 years, it has come to an end. No place to go at 4 am, so I guess it’s back to bed where, after tossing and turning, I am up at 4:15. Guess what – retirement is boring. I golf at least 2 days a week, fish on weekends. But, one day while I was fishing, I had a brain storm. I can remember the days when we didn’t have designers, so we had to train our own. It’s the same now – we have to train our shop labor, but we just can’t take the time out of our day to train our new hires properly, so we lose more employees than we keep. To remedy this training problem and help ramp up my retirement plans, I decided to start a training class for production workers. I have done a few classes, and the employees have stayed so far. It’s a week-long class with 8 hours of training per day. I teach them to read and understand the shop paperwork, proper plate placement, grades of lumber and picking lumber, saw training, setting up trusses, and SAFETY. The class is good for truss shops AND wall panel plants. If you are interested in having a class at your facility, call me at 931-981 5781 and ask for Don. Don Cernuto Former Operations Manager Apex, NC
Well, I am sure going to miss your articles. I usually read yours first then, if there is time, I’ll read others. Yours are always the most entertaining! Even though you might stir the pot a little, I think most folks would agree with me that yours are the most fun. After all, you gotta have fun to make it all worthwhile. When you stop having fun, it’s time to move on. Hope all is well with you. I think you mentioned that you were living in Texas now. I was just there visiting our plants in Houston and Fort Worth. It’s amazing how much those cities are growing. I lived in Houston all my life up until 2001 and now when I go back I barely recognize the place. Hang in there, My Friend! Mark Rolf Trussway Manufacturing, Inc. Letters to the editor are welcome. Credited comments will be used with permission; contributors may choose to remain anonymous. All submissions may be edited for accuracy and relevance.
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